Construction of lodgments in cocooneries foe



UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIoE.

SOLOMON M. JENKINS, OF EASTON, MARYLAND.

CONSTRUCTION F LODGMENTS IN COCOONERIES FOR THE ATTACHMENT OF THECOCOON.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 1,347, dated September 28, 1839.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SOLOMON M. JENKINS, of Easton, in the county ofTalbot and State of Maryland, have invented a new and useful Improvementin the Apparatus in Which the Cocoons of Silk-Worms are to be Formed,which I denominate a Cocoon- Lodgmentf and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full and exact description thereof.

I prepare two frames of wood, which should be adapted in size to thehurdles upon which the worms are fed, and over which the apparatus is tobe placed. These frames are shown in the accompanying drawing, but in aninverted position, for the purpose of exhibiting the construction of thewhole apparatus the more distinctly.

A, A, is the upper, and B, B, the lower frame, the two being of onesize, placed one directly above the other, at a small distance apart,and kept in their relative positions by pins, ledges, or any suitabledevice. The upper side of the lower frame is crossed by slats of wood C,C, attached to its upper side, and forming a grating; these slats may befrom half an inch to an inch wide, and an inch and a half apart. vTheyare to be crossed by twine, so as to leave spaces of about an inch and ahalf square, as shown at a, a, a; the space between this reticulationand the upper surface of the upper frame should, also, be about an inchand a half. At about the same distance apart, I insert rows of woodenpins, b, b, o, which may be one fourth of an inch thick, and four orlive inches in length; they descend directly down, and are to serve asladders upon which the worms may ascend into the lodgment, for thepurpose of spinning their cocoons. The upper surface of the upper frameshould be covered with thick cloth, paper, or other material which isnearly opaque, the worms performing their spinning operation morereadily and perfectly when light is excluded. The pins, b, Z), shouldpass through' the slats C, C, so as to come into contact with, and tosupport, the top covering.

lVhen the worms are ready to spin, the apparatus, or lodgnient, is to beplaced over the hurdles on which they are fed; it may be suspended bylines, or otherwise, so that it maybe readily removed when necessary.When the worms have spun their cocoons two, or three, in depth, saidcocoons should be removed; and this is eected by taking off the upperframe, the space of an inch and a half being suiiicient to allow of theready forming and removal of all the cocoons. I find it of advantage topass twine around the pins, at a suitable distance below thereticulation first mentioned, but this is not absolutely necessary.

I-Iaving thus fully described the manner in which I construct my cocoonlodgment, I claim I. The said apparatus as new in its generalconstruction and arrangement; that is to say.

2. Ig claim, in combination, the double frame, the lo-wermost of whichis divided into spaces by means of slats, and twi-ne, or other suitablematerial, with pins descending from said slats, the whole corr structed,substantially, in the manner, and for the purpose, herein set forth.

SOLOMON M. JENKINS.

W'itnesses THos. I). JONES, I. F. CALLAN.

